Some music scenes are over before you’ve had a chance to blink – one thinks here of “romo”, the early 90s attempt to revive 80s new romantic pop including such “stars” as Orlando and Plastic Fantastic, or even punk which lasted no more than 18 months in its purest, original form – while others are rather more enduring.
Just ahead of the publication of the 19th Rare Record Price Guide, we have, this month, gone to town (literally: our office is in Fleet Street) and made the latest issue a special on the subject of collectables.
Do people still go to pubs? What, in this weather? And if they do, do they actually, you know, converse, what with all the crowds and noise? Well, if they do, and they can manage to hear each other, surely one of the great hot (though ideally cold) topics of pub debate remains: what are the greatest songs by so-and-so?
Well, the Ed’s off getting sunburned, and hopefully not actually burned, on a beach, flicking through the (virtual) pages of the September issue RC. So, what’s in store?
Who is the greatest frontman of the rock, or rock’n’roll, era? Ask a dozen people and chances are they’d mostly have the same answer: Mick Jagger. He has been, for more than 60 years, the paradigmatic swaggering frontman, the one with such presence and starpower he outshines even his charismatic bandmates.&n…
Where were you and what were you doing in 1976? Me, I was at school, dreaming of becoming a rock journalist. This, I must tell you, was about as likely as becoming an astronaut, not least because I looked less like one of those pale but interesting, “hospital-thin” rockwriter legends such as Nick Kent than I did Danny Bonaduce from The Partridg…
If you’re a fan of the music press – and chances are, considering you’re reading this, you have read the odd “inkie” or rock magazine – you’ll enjoy this month’s cover story. In it, Simon Goddard shows how influential the music press of the 70s was, tracing the giddy ascent of punk as it happened: you get the sense that the NME, Melod…
While the Editor’s on a well-earned rest in, to some, the would-be 51st State (Canada, that is, not Greenland, that’s the would-be 52nd) and the West Coast secession waiting to happen (California), we can reveal that on our as-yet unblockaded cover this month is a man who knows a thing or three about the state of things: The Modfather (Paul Wel…
It’s a bit of a double-whammy, this issue (even though it doesn’t actually feature Wham!). The cover itself is shared by Record Store Day and Robert Plant and is a celebration of all things black and round as the 19th anniversary of the biggest day in the vinyl calendar fast approaches. Over 20 …
Welcome to what we believe is the first, for many years, even decades, music press front cover article on the band occasionally referred to as The Deptford Beatles. It is, we think — and do write in to argue otherwise – the first time Squeeze have appeared on the front of a music magazine since the August 1982 edition of America’s Trouser Pres…
